Yesterday, on Facebook, Gene Spafford posted a link to the ACM Programming Contest results. I commented in reply: \u201cI remember *hosting* the ACM programming contest (SoCal Regional) back in 1981 when ACM ’81 was in LA. It’s one of the ways I met my wife!\u201d<\/p>\n
To this, one of Gene\u2019s friend\u2019s replied, \u201cI have to ask — how many ways does it take?\u201d So, I elaborated: \u201cWell, I first met her at the 1980 contest (when she was still married to her first husband, who I knew from the UCLA Computer Club). We got serious as she was breaking up with him after the 1981 contest, and she was taking a class from UCLA Extension.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gene, who is one of the most admirable quick wits out there, replied as follows: \u201cAh, a case of following an indirect pointer to a variable with weak binding, and redirecting it. No wonder you are interested in assurance. :-)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, on Facebook, Gene Spafford posted a link to the ACM Programming Contest results. I commented in reply: \u201cI remember *hosting* the ACM programming contest (SoCal Regional) back in 1981 when ACM ’81 was in LA. It’s one of the ways I met my wife!\u201d To this, one of Gene\u2019s friend\u2019s replied, \u201cI have to Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-my-sweetie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}